Quotes on Happiness

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.